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“People with disabilities, particularly women and children, are the most vulnerable and discriminated against people in Somalia,” says Mohamed Ali Farah, director and co-founder of Somali Disability Empowerment Network (SODEN).
“For example, less than 1% of disabled children are enrolled in school here.”
Mohamed speaks from direct experience. The thirty-one year old contracted polio at the age of three. His family, like many with disabled children in Somalia, didn’t send him to school. Through his own initiative, he started attending school at the age of 14 but, without a wheelchair, had to crawl through the streets to get there. The temperature in Somalia often reaches 95 degrees F and the ground was scorching.